Window-shade-hanging device.



No. 863,468. PATENTED AUG. 13, 1907. J. M. TERRY & J. 5. WHITE.

WINDOW SHADE HANGING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 21. 1906..

UNITED s'rArgrs i grnnr OFFICE.

JAMES M. TERRY AND JOHN E. WHITE, OF ANADARKO, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

WINDOW-SHADE-HANGING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 13, 1907.

Application filed September 21,1906. Serial No. 335,627.

WHITE, citizens of the United States, residing at Anadarko, in the county of Caddo and Territory of Oklahoma, have invented new and useful Improvements in Window-Shade-Hanging Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to window shade hanging devices, the object of the invention being to provide a simple and durable article of such character which can be readily and quickly applied and which can be easily adapted to windows of different sizes.

The device may be used in a variety of ways, but preferably is of such character as to particularly adapt it for direct attachment to a window sash.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification we illustrate in detail one form of embodiment of the invention which to enable those skilled in the art to practice the same will be fully set forth in the following description, while the novelty of the invention will be included in the claims succeeding said description.

Referring to said drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a window shade hanging device involving our invention. Fig. 2 is a like view of one of the brackets thereof and Fig. 3 is a similar view of the window shade carrier or supporting bracket.

Like characters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

Our device includes in its make-up two attaching brackets and a window shade carrier or supporting bracket. The attaching brackets are each denoted in a general way. by 2, while the window shade carrier or supporting bracket is designated in a general way by 3.

We will describe in detail one of the attaching brackets, such description applying to the other, as they are in the present case of duplicate construction.

Referring now to Fig. 2, the bracket therein represented comprises a body member or main portion as 4 which may be like its companion member 5 of any dosirable material or construction. The two parts ordinarily, however, consists of metal plates. These two bracket members 4 and 5 are related in such a way as to provide for longitudinal adjustment of said bracket 2, and one advantageous way of securing this result and which is shown in the drawings will be hereinafter set forth. The body member 4 is the one which in the present case is attached to the window, and for this purpose said body member 4 may have at its inner end or that end thereof next the window sash a lateral flange as 6 to fit flatwise against the sash and to be held thereto in some suitable way, as by nails, screws or other fastenings passed through perforations in said flange. The bracket member 5 is slidably supported by the bracket member 4 and this result we may secure by forming in the said bracket member 4 several pairs of vertical slits each designated by 7 and the formation of which produces cross bars or loops as 8. The shank of the slidable bracket member 5 extends through these pairs of slits 7 and the cross bars 8 overlie said shank,

by virtue of which the bracket member 5 can be freely moved longitudinally of the companion member to provide for the necessary adjustment of the bracket and the cross bars will be sufliciently resilient to frictionally hold the bracket member 5 in an adjusted position. This holding in an adjusted position may be also aided by the inherent resiliency of the two brackets, particularly if they be made of some thin sheet metal. At its extreme outer end the slidable bracket member 5 is provided with an upwardly extending arm 9 in the upper edge of which we form a downwardly extending slot 10 which slot with a duplicate slot on the other bracket member is adapted to receive the carrier or shade supporting bracket 3. This presents a very easy way of mounting or dismounting said carrier 3.

The carrier 3 consists of two sections as 11 and 12 preferably of sheet metal and each is provided at its outer end with a lateral flange as 13 having an opening to receive one of the projecting studs or arbor-s of a cm'tain roller, the openings in the flangeslS being of the familiar shape common in curtain roller brackets, that is, one being circular and the other rectangular. It will be understood that the carrier 3 between the flanges 13 at the opposite ends thereof f ts in the slots 10 0f the two brackets 2 when the parts are assembled. The section 11 0f the shade carrier may as illustrated be provided with several pairs of vertical slits as 14 through which the narrow part of the section 12 slides, the cross bars or loops 15, which are produced by the formation of said vertical slits l4, overlying the narrow portion of the said member 12. By reason of the rela tion between the two members 11 and 12 they may be extended or shortened to adapt the carrier 3 to the particular desired adjustment and when the adjustment is obtained it may be retained by the resilience of the two members forming said carrier or bracket 3 or simply by the resilience of the cross bars 15, so that as in the case of the two brackets 2 no independent holding means are necessary to preserve the adjusted relations.

It will be evident that the device is durable in that it has no parts that are subjected to undue wear, or which are liable to get out of order; it is simple in construction, by reason of which it can be applied or removed by unskilled persons. It is adjustable to meet various depths of windowpasings or frames, and various length curtains or shades and is very inexpen sive to make. The construction is such that if desired the shade or curtain may extend into a room or compartment beyond the window casing or frame and when the sash which carries the device is up the said curtain may be above the upper cross bar oi said name.

By using the device We may secure peri'ect ventilation Without draft, through the upper hall or another part of a window. We also secure privacy in a. room by drawing the shade over the lower sash While light and ventilation can be obtained through the upper part of Window.

What We claim is:

1. in a device of the class described, a plurality oi attaching brackets and a shade carrier sustained by said brackets, each oi said brackets consisting of two parts one slitted to form loops for receiving the other for longitudinal :uljusiment of said brackc s and the carrier comprising two members one having slits to form loops for receiv ing the other to provide for longitudinal adjustment oi' said carriein 2. in a device oi? the class described. a curtain shade supporting bracket: comprising two members, one slitted to form loops for receiving the other to provide [or the iongitudinal adjustment; of said bracket combined with two attaching brackets, each of the latter being composed of an inner section having vertical slits arranged in pairs to thereby i'orm loops, and an outer section to work through said latter loops and thereby provide for the longitu dinal adjustn'ient oi said attaching brackets, and the outer sections of the latter having open ended slots to receive 5 id supporting bracket and the latter having a t ils oppir site ends. portions which project outward beyond the attaching brackets to constitute bearings for a curtain shade support.

:l. The combination oif attaching brackets. each consi ing of a lnain member and an auxiliary member, one having a plu'ality oi pairs of vertinilly disposed slits iorming loops to receive [for slidingmovement; the other member and thereby provide for the longitudinal adjustment, oi said a tiaching brackets said outer members having opcn slots. and a curtain shade supporting bracket to ill said slots and comprising two members, one having several pairs of vertical slits to term loops for slidingly receiving the other to provide for the longitudinal adjustment ol' said curtain shade supporting bracket.

I11 testimony \vhercoif we have hereunto in presence oi two subscribing witnesses.

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